Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey, hello, hiya, g'day, mabuhay, kia ora, 你好, hallo, vítejte, こんにちは!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
Our headquarters is in sunny Sydney, Australia, but our team spans the globe. While we support flexible, remote-friendly ways of working, for this role we’re focusing on Tokyo, Japan. So we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
Responsibilities
This role is focused on our template Library — the design content marketplace where millions of users start their design journey — rather than Brand or external-facing creative work.
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Create a range of fresh, varied and beautiful designs for our Japan community.
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Develop unique concepts for templates across themes and topics that resonate in Japan.
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Collaborate with asset creators to develop supporting design elements — illustrations and design elements — that make templates shine.
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Suggest new design styles and creative directions that fit what local users want.
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Focus on quality management for Creator templates, partnering with the Creator Template Review Team to lift overall design quality and keep everything on-brand.
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Use AI tools to create templates at scale for the Japan market, without compromising craft or cultural relevance.
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Write Creator briefs that give clear direction, context and inspiration, so Creators can do their best work.
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Partner with the Design Lead to manage freelancer designers — keeping work on track, on-brief and shipping on deadline.
Qualifications
What we're looking for
Requirements & Skills
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Experience as a Graphic, Brand or Visual Designer across digital and print marketing.
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A genuine love for design trends and styles specific to Japan.
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A portfolio that shows your passion for clean, elegant, beautiful design.
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Strong craft in hand illustration, typography, colour, conceptual graphic design and layout.
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A sharp eye for visual, cultural and pop culture trends.
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A strong stylistic point of view, grounded in design fundamentals.
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You design with the end user in mind, and deliver great work on deadline and to brief.
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You've given design feedback before — and you know how to make it clear, kind and useful.
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You're comfortable using AI tools in your design workflow, and curious about pushing them further.
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You can write a tight creative brief that sets other designers up for success.
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You've helped coordinate or guide a small group of designers before (or you're excited to step into that).
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Experience using Canva is a plus, helping you get up to speed quickly from day one.
When applying to this role, please provide the following:
Application requirements
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Your resume
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A link to your portfolio
Additional Information
About the Group/Team
Our marketplace of templates provides the perfect place for our users to begin their design journey. The Canva team wants to work with talented designers from across the world, to redefine what’s possible for a template - creating a new benchmark for fresh, high-quality design content within our collection. We're aiming to build the world’s best design marketplace, with a library of designs that offer our users a wide variety of usable and dynamic content - and to do that, we need the help of talented designers that can create amazing content.
About the Role/Specialty
Canva's on a mission to democratise design, and localisation is a big part of that. It's not enough to translate content from English — we want every market to have templates that reflect their own design aesthetics and trends. Working closely with copywriters, illustrators, market growth and localisation specialists, you'll oversee the end-to-end rollout of the Japan content library.
This role goes beyond designing templates yourself. You'll also shape what our external Creators make — writing clear Creator briefs, managing quality of their template submissions, and using AI to create templates at scale for the Japan market. You'll partner with the Design Lead to help manage our freelancer designers, keeping work aligned, on-brief and on-time.